Wednesday, 6 October 2010

Hey everyone, here's a transcript of the video I posted a while ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiG1stRg8BM


Wey, who's a Geordie? (wey= well, Geordie= someone from Newcastle or the dialect itself)
I divn't kna nor care! ( I don't know nor care)
Someone from 'the Toon', (The Toon= 'Town' In Geordie sounds like Toon. As this is specific to Geordie Toon always specificaly refers to Newcastle nomatter where in England you are)
That's it, awa there! (over there)
The' taalk reet funny, (they talk very strangely)
Aye, sound nice an' aal, (aye is used instead of yes in Newcastle, Scotland and some of Ireland)
The' come in aal sizes, (They come in all sizes)
Mebes massive, mebes smaal, (Mebes= Maybe)
The' like tha' Football, (all these kinds of contractions are versions of the, they, their etc)
Aye indeed, so the' say,
That Black 'n White Army, (The Toons Footy club wears a black and white strip)
Come oot to play. (out)
The' like tha' Stottie cake,
It's a Geordie bread,
Best eaten warm,
Not with Marg, (Marg= Margerine, Butta= Butter)
But butta instead.
The awld'uns still like, (Awld'uns= Old ones, old people)
Their awn bottle o' broon, (awn=own 'Bottle o broon'= Brown Ale, a geordie Ale)
A geordie's proud of his river, and his Toon!!
Divn't taalk to a Geordie,
Yu'll not knaa what tha sayin',
Unless yu can understand mebes,
What I'm relayin'.
Now a Man taalks to a Geordie lass, (Lass= girl)
He can feel it,
In his tummy,
The lasses sound nice like,
Mek his legs gan aal funny, (make his legs go all funny)
A woman taalks to a Geordie lad, (las= boy)
Then tek it from me, (tek=take)
Her heart'll be won,
By his dialect,
Meltin' her knee.
The river Tyne,
It flows reet through the heart, (reet=right)
When away from tha' home,
Any miles ......................... (even I didnt catch this line!!Doh!)
Tha' said very good builders,
By many; the best!
Tha' tough and hard as nails, (Hard as nails is a British expression for tough people. Geordies have a reputation for fighting so this is a reference to that)
Te face any endless test.
And that's aal I knaa (Thats all I know)
Aboot who's a Geordie like, (aboot=about 'Like' Is just a crutch word which is used in almost ever sentence but has no meaning, like Marika or 'o sea' or something...)
Wey gan an look for yesel' like,
go on, get on ya' bike!


I will think you are super duper cool if you say any of these words to me in the correct context!

3 comments:

  1. Wowsa that was longer than i thought!

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  2. hehehehe that was funny -and difficult-, with that rhyme I remembered that Cockney rhyming slang which is supposed to work like that, isn't it?

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